He said that the latest study (Professor Jordan Grafman, from the US National Inst - itute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,) suggests the brain is inherently sensitive to believing in almost anything if there are grounds for doing so, but when there is a mystery about something, the same neural machinery is co-opted in the formulation of religious belief. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Indeed, Petkov's findings indicate that when our ancestors began to talk, they already were equipped with sophisticated neural machinery specialized in voice processing. (scientificamerican.com)
For each law, we will explain what function it might serve and what neural machinery mediates it. (scientificamerican.com)